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Brandon Langel of Fort Pierce and his personal best 59-pound black grouper speared in 80 feet of water Wednesday, the first day of lobster mini-season. Langel and his fellow divers picked up 35 lobsters and shot several gag grouper to 20 pounds.

Bill Giraitis and Lee Halverson with 2 dolphin and a grouper caught in May.

Nike Start shows off the approximately 40-pound dolphin caught outside the St. Lucie Inlet in May.

Patric Evans of Waipio, Hawaii and Dave Goodman of Aspen, Colorado, both pilots for "Sky West Airlines" and old friends, chartered the Last Mango out of Fort Pierce City Marina for a day of Dolphin Fishing Friday June 5. Evans was the angler who fought and landed this 62 lb bull dolphin after a two hour battle on a Shimano TLD 20 and Crowder Tournament Sailfish rod. The fish was gaffed by Capt Tris Colket.

Bill Hamilton with the 25-lb, 43"-long snook caught on live mullet on June 8. He went fishing with Capt. Greg Scherer.

Kelly Beard and Warren Beard show the 10-pound dolphin they caught off St. Lucie Inlet Sunday while trolling dead bait aboard their boat Busted Balls. Photo by Justin Beard

Andy Sobczak, Vero Beach, caught this 36 pound Blackfin Tuna 6 miles east of Fort Pierce in 60ft. of water on May 17.

The dolphin weighed 25 lbs. and was caught on a flat line on the surface with a sardine and a yellow skirt. The fisher woman is Marjorie Belcher. The Cobia was also caught on May 22, 2008 and weighed around 20 lbs. The party who caught the fish caught it on a piece of squid fishing with a single hook on the bottom. Name unknown, with a group of people from Jersey. The King fish was caught on May 22, 2008 also, and was caught by Brian Smith, a local fisherman, floating a flat line with a sardine on the surface. It weighed around 15 lbs.

This dolphin was caught on a family fishing trip Sunday, Feb 24th by Jiim & Nancy Caputo with son Jimmy. We were in 170' of water SE of the St. Lucie inlet.

Glen Gareau writes: Dave Trewin, Rudd Jones and I went out Snookin last night. On my first cast I landed a 38 inch Snook, on my second cast I landed a 43 inch long 24 inch girth Snook. Its official I have broken the 30 lb barrier, according to the fish weight formula the Snook weighed 31 lbs. Dave landed a nice 39 inch Snook a few minutes later. Rudd had a good fish on but the hook pulled on the second run. I landed two short Snook and the bite seemed to turn off the rest of the night. The bite was early as you can see from the pictures. John Alden Knight wrought a book titled â“Moon up Moon Downâ” the book chronicles his creation of the Solunar Tables that predict animal activity level based on the Moon and Sun position relative to where you are. I donâ’t fish by the tables and have not found them to be right all the time, but I do check them when we get on a good bite. The Solunar Table was dead on yesterday. The Solunar tables predicted major feeding period at 6:22 pm. I landed the first fish at 7:10 pm. I landed two short Snook, and we managed to also catch a few Goftail and Toad Fish. We watched a guy fighting a 15- 20 lb Tarpon from the bridge as we were leaving around 11:00 pm.

Drew Herndon and Bob Richardson caught this 40-lb plus Permit May 18th in St. Lucie County off the power plant. Photo provided by Tina Richardson

Joe Kirk (left), Tim and Rob Wigglesworth with an amberjack caught on a butterfly jig. Photo provided by Cammie Ward

From left to right: Capt. Gary Farless, Brad Hensick, Taylor Hansen and Darren House of the 35' SeaHunter 'Hoo'Z In', who won first place in the Grouper category in the Blue Water Open.

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Jessica Wenger showing off her 28" gator trout caught on a Rapala Skitterwalk as the sun was rising over the Indian River in Fort Pierce.

Jessica later caught this 27" redfish on the shallow flats on a live pinfish.

Savannah Ward of Fort Pierce - age 7 with her dad - Rob Ward and her 29 pound king.

The father and son team of Greg and Clete Bucher hit the hot fishing again this year with a mix bag of dolphin (largest at 29.6 lbs.), AJ's, jacks and macs.

Captain Scott Meitner of Ft. Pierce and a 41-pound kingfish caught Thurs. May 8. Out of our 14 Kingfish the biggest one was 41lbs. They were all caught on live mullet and greenies in 30ft of water off Twin Condos north of Ft. Pierce inlet.

John O'Connell (foreground) and Ken Aldrich show a nice sailfish caught April 27 off the Loran Tower in Hobe Sound before its release.

Stuart anglers Kevin Adrian, David Dains and Matt Adrian of Koo Koo weighed this 57.48-pound dolphin caught in 125 feet of water off the Loran Tower in Hobe Sound.

Devin Sapusek of Port St. Lucie caught his second fish ever Saturday afternoon in Fort Pierce on a live pinfish. It was a 35 inch snook and he was upset he couldn't keep it.

Jeff Manning, left, and Russ Scudder, right, hold up two large African pompano, caught about 100 miles of St. Petersburg.

Tracy Arlotta & Brenda Kahn of Sebastian with a 37 and 35 lb Dolphin caught 30 miles out of Sebastian on board the Dirty Work with Captain Mike Kahn.

Collin Sealey, 9, a Jensen Beach Elementary 3rd-grader caught this slot-sized redfish while wade fishing the Indian River Monday.

This Slot size snook was caught by Greg Fleming on Saturday, April 11, in the Indian River Lagoon with a DOA Cal.

Lew Souder caught this 40 lb. Wahoo about 10 miles off of Ft. Pierce.

Blake and his uncle Ryan Testa, who just returned from 15 months in Iraq. They caught 10 Brim on their lake in Vero Beach.

Bobby Fletcher displays a Jack Crevalle caught just off the 10A buoy.

A half day trip off Palm Beach produced a 45 lb Dolphin for daughter Ashley Downey and her Dad.

Lew Souder caught this 40 lb. dolphin 8 miles off the coast of Ft. Pierce.

Becky Harrison of Indiantown caught these two fine bass while fishing with shiners on Lake Okeechobee April 1, 2008. The bass weighed in at 7.5 lbs. and 5 lbs. Becky was guided by Harry Simmons Guide Service.

John O' Connell of Palm City spotted this rare Ocean Sunfish (native to Pacific waters) off the Treasure Coast after a fruitless day out trolling for local varieties. The fish was uninterested in any of the bait he offered it but continued to follow the boat for quite some time before submerging.

Stan JopSki caught this snook on the north fork of the St. Lucie River. It was 38" and weighed 16lbs.

Donna Crespo caught this 5 pound sheepshead and several snapper while out with Capt. Joe's River Charter.

Mark Roth admiring his 33" snook caught on the Indian River flats.

Janice Papp, from Little Egg Harbor, N.J., with her first ever large mouth bass caught at Jonathan's Landing in Jupiter.

This is eight year old Adam Hansen's first Spanish Mackerel. He caught it several weeks ago near Round Island.

Rick Bode displays a 16.5 lb tilefish he caught while out with his son-in-law at their "secret" spot.

Capt. John Young (left) of Bites On charters and angler Marty L`Heureux show off two slot size snook caught near the Ten Cent Bridge in Stuart on live mojarra and D.O.A. Terror Eyz during the outgoing tide. They also had a mixed bag of Snapper, Golaith Grouper, Croaker, Sheepshead.

Dalton Wells and a pompano caught near North Bridge in Fort Pierce.

The dolphin weighed 25 lbs. and was caught on a flat line on the surface with a sardine and a yellow skirt. The fisher woman is Marjorie Belcher. The Cobia was also caught on May 22, 2008 and weighed around 20 lbs. The party who caught the fish caught it on a piece of squid fishing with a single hook on the bottom. Name unknown, with a group of people from Jersey. The King fish was caught on May 22, 2008 also, and was caught by Brian Smith, a local fisherman, floating a flat line with a sardine on the surface. It weighed around 15 lbs.

This redfish was caught by Andrew Rodgers of Vero Beach in the Indian River.

Marlin Hossler shows a Mayan cichlid caught recently from C-24 Canal at Oak Hammock Park in Port St. Lucie while fishing with her grandfather.

David Hossler proudly displays his first fish - a bluegill - caught from C-24 Canal at Oak Hammock Park in Port St. Lucie on a Berkley Gulp bait with his grandfather.

Richard G. Gray took this photo on the Back River (off the St. John's River). Mr. Gray's vessel was anchored in the river, and he was exploring by dinghy when this female 'gator' decided to sun and nap on the vessel's swim platform.

Jesse Pfeiffer was snook fishing in the Ft. Pierce Inlet. He was bouncing a pigfish off the bottom and hoping for a keeper snook. What he got instead was a 81.2 pound black drum!

The guys on the boat Gatorfan owned by David Albritton (right) of Port St. Lucie caught a 27-pound gag grouper, a smaller gag, a 12-pound mangrove snapper and 10-pound mangrove snapper.

Blake Brown, Brad Mett, Jody Isbell, all from Knoxville, Tenn. show off the 29-pound and 71-pound cobia caught Sunday 2/24 in 50 feet of water out of Sebastian Inlet with Capt. John Conlon of Double Header charters.